Uvalde PD stop cooperating with state amid words that make them feel unsafe

The Uvalde, Texas police department and local school district police have stopped cooperating with the Department of Safety investigation as they are feeling "unsafe" with the words being used to describe their behavior during the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School. Their lack of cooperation is not surprising as we have witnessed their lack of action against the now-dead shooter, an 18-year-old mentally ill man.

"It was scary," a cop who wished to remain anonymous to avoid dangerous, scary criticism said. "I was hoping he would run out of ammo and then we'd charge him, but he was well prepared and we used strategic patience, like Barack Obama used. It didn't work out very well for all parties."

The Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police force stopped cooperating Friday after they were criticized at a press conference, which made them feel unsafe and forced them to retreat to their "safe spaces."

 Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the police made the "wrong decision" when they stayed a safe distance from the danger in order to go home to their wives and kids or just dogs and cats, depending upon who you asked. 

Peter Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, has stayed out of sight and not responded to Texas Rangers for two days for a follow-up interview after having made initial statements following the shooting. 

Arredondo made the decision to not immediately confront the shooter at the school during his rampage last week because it was too dangerous. The "bravest" waited in a school hallway for almost 50 minutes. Fifty freaking minutes! Children were being shot and these cowards did nothing to stop him for 50 minutes.

McCraw said that Arredondo believed the situation had changed from active shooter to barricaded shooter, in spite of 911 calls coming from children inside the classroom. In spite of the training the cops received only 8 weeks prior to the rampage that clearly directs law enforcement to waste no time and confront the threat immediately once the location is known.

Then the cops didn't have a key to open the door and they worried that they might get cut if they came in through a window or perhaps have to pay for the door if they broke it down.

The entire incident was a clusterfrack of misinformation, cowardice, bad decisions, and lies. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed by this mentally ill person and the signs were there that he had a problem.

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Meanwhile the left used the opportunity to 'never let a crisis go to waste' and called for more gun control, as if that would have prevented this incident. 

Locked doors with only one school entrance, armed and trained school staff, metal detectors, faster, braver police response, and improved reporting of mental health issues, especially after threats are made, would have likely prevented this from happening, at least to the horrible degree that it did. 

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